Businesses or groups and other entities in distress – as well as those involved with them – require advisors with dedicated skills to navigate difficult circumstances and preserve value for all stakeholders concerned. Our member firms offer significant and recognized expertise and a broad range of experience in even the most complex and high-stakes restructuring, insolvency and pre-insolvency cases. These cases are regularly cross-border matters where various national laws, as well as European and international regulations, must be combined.
We support and advise clients on the full spectrum of issues involved in crisis and distressed situations, including working alongside creditors, co-contractors or investors; those seeking to acquire distressed assets; major financial institutions; insolvency administrators; and regulators, as well as companies or groups themselves which are in distress.
Our experience includes handling complex business or corporate reorganizations, operational or financial restructuring, (re)financing carve-outs and distressed M&A, insolvency, and dealing with all types of related issues such as corporate and financial, labor and employment, environment, real estate, tax, and white collar crime.
Crisis and distressed situations can often be contentious and transactional, and we bring a unique perspective to supporting clients in such situations. Coupled with our broad and deep experience across many key sectors, we regularly handle situations involving mandatory provisions (clawbacks or damages stemming from past transactions or business conduct) as well as non-mandatory provisions, where insolvency laws provide a lot of tools and techniques to prevent difficulties and provide flexible solutions. When litigation is involved, we provide proven and highly respected disputes expertise to fight for the client in court or seek efficient and optimal out-of-court solutions.
